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Posted May 06, 2015
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!!! PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING !!!

== BUG REPORTING ==

Please use: http://mantis.gog.com and include
1. steps to reproduce the bug (if possible)
2. screenshot or movie showing the bug (if possible)
3. Galaxy Client logs (see below)

Where can I find Galaxy logs on my computer?
On Windows 7 or later: C:\ProgramData\GOG.com\Galaxy\Logs
On Mac OS X: /Users/Shared/GOG.com/Galaxy/Logs

== FEATURE SUGGESTIONS ==

Please use: http://www.gog.com/wishlist/galaxy. For feature suggestions and votes on them please try do explain how Galaxy and its users will really benefit from it.

== IMPORT ALREADY INSTALLED GAMES TO GALAXY ==

1. For GOG games installed using installers from the last few months (so called Galaxy-compatible installers)
Click the Galaxy logo button on top of the sidebar and select "scan and import folders" - it will find all compatible games within that folder and add them to the Client.

2. For remaining GOG game INSTALLATIONS
Find the game in the Library (click on the image of the game), then click the More button and select "Manage Installation" -> "Import folder" and point the folder selector into the folder where that game is installed.

== KNOWN ISSUES ==
- throttling max download speed is not yet possible
- notifications related to incoming chat messages and friend requests does not always disappear instantly when consumed and may require reloading Store page
- games imported from existing installations will auto-update once, even if updating is disabled
- Moving Galaxy from /Applications on Mac OS X will stop the app from working
- Galaxy cannot be launched by other users on the same computer
Post edited October 03, 2016 by Liosan
Posted July 03, 2015
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Hi Everyone,

Below you can find the changelog of GOG Galaxy.

Changelog 1.1.15 (September 7th, 2016):
Changes / Improvements:
• Added Wallet button in dropdown menu under user's avatar
• Performance improvements on UI speed and a little on CPU usage
• Enabled copying text in Galaxy forums
• History will now remember only the 100 most recent pages in history
Bugfixes:
• Fix for "Disk access problem" bug, which broke installation and updates of games. (Bug happened on Windows only, but general mechanism is better on OS X as well)
• Fix for Verify/Repair, which did not work in some scenarios (The above bug for example)
• Fix for "Server problem" while downloading backup installers or other goodies. They will now work, even if temporary download folder is same as destination folder
• Fixed situations in which Store page sometimes did not load properly after waking up computer

Changelog 1.1.16 (September 19th, 2016):
Improvements:
• Galaxy now supports H.264 codecs
• Much better handling of paying using third party processors (PayPal, paysafecard etc.)
• Friends and chat window now scale with the system scaling factor
• New and prettier GOG Eula will be used in games
• Better handling of loading timeouts

Bugfixes:
• "INSTALLED" label will appear all pages of the library now
• Fixed a bug with game time tracking for some games. Galaxy will now register more than one minute:)
• Fixed a bug in which Galaxy in rare cases could not be able to update the game (bug rather existed in rollbacks)
• Galaxy will no longer show a little bit of bare code upon launching
• Fixed blurred images in sidebar expanded list mode

Changelog 1.1.17(hotfix September 20th, 2016):
• Fixed crashes and 'Disk Access Problem' caused by updating Galaxy from 1.1.12 (and earlier versions) to 1.1.16

Changelog 1.1.18 (October 19th, 2016):
Improvements:
• More accurate game time tracking mechanism
• Improved mechanism showing current online status between friends

Bugfixes:
• Fixed a bug which caused Galaxy to stop tracking game time

Changelog 1.1.19 (October 25th, 2016):
Improvements:
• We have removed download size from Galaxy updater. It showed faulty data, as Galaxy Updater doesn't download > 100mb each time and only downloads differences. It will come back in nearest future, when it will show correct data:)
• The first check for game updates will be done 15s after Galaxy starts, instead of 5 minutes.
• OSX: Improved mechanism responsible for removing old files left by Galaxy updates
• OSX: Improved the way Galaxy handles installing games into protected locations like /Applications; you will receive a password prompt about a "Helper tool" installation

Bugfixes:
• Fixed "Essential components missing" error which sometimes appeared after fresh installation
• Fixed a situation where failure in Updater could lead to Galaxy not being able to launch
• Fixed self-update on OSX to properly delete leftover files
• Fixed friends window losing functionality after network loss and reconnect
• Fixed blurry Windows 10 Galaxy tray icon
• Galaxy will remember maximised window status

Changelog 1.1.20(November 2nd, 2016)
Bugfixes:
• Fixed installing XNA4 and other msi-based dependencies.
• Store page won't be reloaded twice upon logging in

Changelog: 1.1.21 (November 17th, 2016)
Improvements / changes:
• Added "with preview updates" suffix to Galaxy window title
• Small optimizations with memory and Galaxy loading time
• Small improvements with updater, it should fail less

Bugfixes:
• Fixed a bug with Galaxy refreshing pages
• Fixed occasional crashes

Changelog 1.1.22 (November 22nd, 2016)
Bugfixes:
• Galaxy will no longer freeze when downloading a game update and checking another game in library
• Galaxy should crash even less now:)

Changelog 1.1.23 (November 28th, 2016)
Bugfixes:
• Galaxy will be now able to reconnect to internet correctly, if computer was put to sleep and then woken up without (initially) Internet connection
• Downloading of games/updates should have less impact on starting other installations

Changelog 1.1.24(December 6th, 2016)
Bugfixes:
• Downloading an installer with Galaxy and using it to install the game should not result in redownloading the whole game again
• Updater should no longer report over 100% progress on download

Adjustments:
• Increased timeout for failures during sign in
• Increased timeout for "Loading Timeout"

Changelog 1.1.25 (December 20th, 2016)
Bugfixes:
• Fixed a crash when trying to install certain games (Game affected was 1979 Revolution: Black Friday).

Changelog 1.1.26 (December 23rd, 2016, Preview only)
Changes:
• Introduced new downloading mechanism

Changelog 1.1.27 (January 26th, 2017, Preview)
Bugfixes:
• Aborting or pausing downloads will be smoother (They will stop faster)
• Pausing downloads will no longer cause memory usage to go super high

Changelog 1.1.27 (January 31th, 2017)
Changes:
• Introduced new downloading mechanism
Bugfixes:
• Aborting or pausing downloads will be smoother (They will stop faster)
• Pausing downloads will no longer cause memory usage to go super high

Changelog 1.1.28 (March 10th, 2017)
Changes / Improvements:
- Better support for differential patches. They are now seperate depending on game's language and system bitness
- Italian & Japanese partial support + more Spanish translations
- Improved checking for new available updates of the games
- We'll sort available DLCs alphabetically
Bugfixes:
- Fixed a crash when Galaxy doesn't have permissions to the logs directory
- Fixed showing empty grey page after a while of inactivity
- Fixed infinite spinner after going to support page
- Fixed displaying of prices in cart when they were over 999 (Bug caused by a comma in the price)
- MacOS: Popup windows (for example chat) will no longer open as a tab but as a separate window instead
- MacOS: Fixed memory leak (~30MB upon GOG Galaxy launch)
- MacOS: Fixed memory leak while playing a game

Changelog 1.1.29 (March 14nd, 2017)
Changes:
- Changes in downloading mechanism, which allows for better control over download's flow
Bugfixes:
- Fixed displaying progress of differential patches (It did not display the "Extracting" status)

Changelog 1.1.30 (March 16th, 2017)
Bugfixes:
- Fixed a crash within games downloading mechanism

== PREVIEW UPDATES* ===

HOW TO ENABLE PREVIEWS?
Go to your Galaxy settings and check the option to receive preview updates.

HOW TO DISABLE PREVIEW?
- Uninstall Galaxy
- Download current installer from gog.com/galaxy
- Install Galaxy
- Import your games

Changelog 1.2.0 (March 22nd, 2017)
Changes and improvements:
- Cloud saves backup and syncing (supported games only)
- Screenshot capture with F12 (supported games only)
- In-game overlay with FPS counter and notifications (supported games only)
- Greatly improved chat, also in overlay
- Ability to enable or disable achievements, game time tracking, auto-updating games and more
- Desktop and in-game notifications system
- Ability to set bandwidth limit and scheduler
- New settings window
- Rarity information in achievements
- Abort button next to installation status
- Only one Galaxy Updater window will be shown in most cases
- GOG Galaxy updates will be downloaded in the background
- Games are now downloaded directly to their install directory, instead of a temporary location
- Galaxy changelog is displayed in Galaxy

Bugfixes:
- Fixed game time tracking issues
- Initial size of Galaxy Client window will respect Windows scaling
- Improved Windows 10 Galaxy tray icon
- Fixed a bug which caused Galaxy to redownload whole data in case of a failure of installation/update
- Thumbnail highlighting in media gallery now works properly
- Decreased client's network and CPU usage (especially for a lot of games)
- MacOS: Fixed situation when Galaxy Client could downloading due to App Nap
- MacOS: Fixed crash when logging out with "New post" popup open
- MacOS: Fixed game processes not being properly cleaned up after exiting
Post edited March 22, 2017 by TheTomasz
Posted March 26, 2016
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For everyone who has a problem with missing api-ms-crt dlls in Client's versions post 1.1.5:
Please install one of those windows update: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2999226 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3118401
You may need to update Windows to meet the requirements for these:
For Windows 8.1 and for Windows Server 2012: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2919355
For Windows 7 and for Windows Server 2008 R2: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/976932

You can also try reinstalling Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables 2015 (x86) if you meet above requirements.
Available here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145

If above instructions doesn't work for you, create a separate issue on mantis.gog.com and we'll try to help you individually.

Please note that this solution only helps with the missing api-ms-crt dlls.


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Answering this question: Why 1.1 doesn't work after updating to 1.2?

This is happening probably due to incompatible database from version 1.2, please delete this folder:
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\GOG.com\Galaxy\storage
usually
C:\ProgramData\GOG.com\storage\

Then you'll have to use scan&import (menu under the top Galaxy logo) function to see your games back in Galaxy Client.
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Post edited March 27, 2017 by TheTomasz
Posted June 14, 2015
I should really install this and give it a try
(is there any reason why the forums open a pop-up window for new posts?)
Posted June 14, 2015
Request:

I've got a PM message notification showing up in GOG Downloader for me that absolutely wont go away. The website does not give me a notification of a message waiting. Since the new chat system has went into place almost a month ago I have allegedly received messages from people and have yet to see a single message from anyone. All I can see in the chat system is that 234827342 people I talked to once 3 years ago are online. Not so useful. There appears to be no way to actually find a message if someone does send you one.

So, I'm requesting that one fellow beta tester (don't care who) post here first "I'm sending you a message right now" in response to this post, and then send me a private message on the chat system. The post here is to indicate to everyone else that someone has done it already so that I don't get 100 private messages. :) To others that see this message, please have a quick look through posts that have come after this one to see if anyone has already done it.

Ultimately I just want to see the message that is waiting or make the notification go away, either way I normally get messages all the time before the new chat system and I don't remember seeing any since it went in place.

Thanks in advance.

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mintee: galaxy is just running too much memory for idle use. (not downloading anything) right now its taking almost 300k for galaxy helper application with another 80k for gog galaxy. thats ridiculous. I dont need it to load all my games at the start either, it takes a long time to boot up waiting for the icons to appear etc. If this is going to be the norm I am going to have to pass as I dont even like my browsers to use up memory like this
Galaxy client is a full blown web browser and that's not going to change. Modern web browsers use several hundred megabytes of memory mostly caching images and other content, also not going to change. Also, Galaxy is in beta and not yet optimized which will likely cause it to use a bit more memory.

The bottom line though is if anyone is not comfortable with Galaxy or any other modern gaming client using 200-400MB of RAM ongoing as long as the client is running, then you might as well uninstall it because it is always going to use at least that much RAM as long as it is based on web browser technology and that is likely also not going to change.

That isn't what some people want, and that's perfectly understandable with different strokes and all that. Once the Galaxy APIs are completed and stable and they document them, other coders out there will be free to create their own clients that are not based on web browser technology and which can be as limited or rich in scope as one wishes to code for to provide alternative options to people who desire something else.

But the bottom line is everyone can fully expect Galaxy client and it's spawned helper processes to consistently use a hundred or more megabytes of RAM, probably several hundred and that is extremely unlikely to change. I'll bet the farm on it.
Post edited June 14, 2015 by skeletonbow
Posted June 14, 2015
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wilflare: I should really install this and give it a try
(is there any reason why the forums open a pop-up window for new posts?)
Yep, because that's the way the forum web code is written. :) You might want to look at installing the Barefoot Essentials browser script for an inline quick post as well as numerous other features. Details in the forums, just search for it.

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spyware_sam: Is there a way to completely hide a game in GOG Galaxy? As opposed to just dimming it?
Yep, go in your game library and for example - bring up the page for "Softporn Adventure" then click on the little down arrow on the right and you'll see "Hide Game" at the bottom of the menu.

HTH
Post edited June 14, 2015 by skeletonbow
Posted June 14, 2015
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bouncedk: This is a joke right? Why must I be forced to install games all over the place? I made a "Games" folder in the Galaxy folder, I should be able to install my friggin games in there if I friggin want to! Also I made a folder right next to the galaxy folder, not in it, and it still wouldn't let my install games in there ... wtf?

Also I installed Galaxy on D: drive, but lo and behold, galaxy wants to use my C: drive for all it's junk. Hello? There's a reason why I install it on the friggin D: drive.

Worst client ever, worse than steam. Where's the old downloader? I like that one so much better than this junk.
Attached is a screenshot showing you can configure Galaxy to install to places other than C:.

You're not forced to install your games all over the place, but currently you are prevented from installing them into the GalaxyClient folder because the client blows it's own directory away completely on upgrades and if your games are installed in there they will also be blown away and many people have reported that they find that undesirable, although granted their choice of words were much more colourful than that.

If you personally are finding the options in the screenshot do not allow you to change directories in a manner similar to what is depected, then file a bug report in mantis.gog.com as the purpose of those options is to indeed let you choose where to install things too, so long as it is not in Galaxy's private directory that gets wasted on updates.

Hope this helps.
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Posted June 14, 2015
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wilflare: I should really install this and give it a try
(is there any reason why the forums open a pop-up window for new posts?)
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skeletonbow: Yep, because that's the way the forum web code is written. :) You might want to look at installing the Barefoot Essentials browser script for an inline quick post as well as numerous other features. Details in the forums, just search for it.
thanks! was trying to find a thread that explains all the various functions of the forum
Posted June 14, 2015
Hello Galaxy development team!

We have problem runing Galaxy in ReactOS. Issue is described here - https://jira.reactos.org/browse/CORE-9680

ReactOS is equivalent of Windows XP, so galaxy should run in ReactOS, but we get such errors in debug log of Reactos:

(dll/win32/kernel32/client/proc.c:3727) Invalid subsystem version: 6.0
(dll/win32/kernel32/client/proc.c:3727) Invalid subsystem version: 6.0

So Galaxy tryes to run as on Windows Vista+
Posted June 14, 2015
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jeditobe: Hello Galaxy development team!

We have problem runing Galaxy in ReactOS. Issue is described here - https://jira.reactos.org/browse/CORE-9680

ReactOS is equivalent of Windows XP, so galaxy should run in ReactOS, but we get such errors in debug log of Reactos:

(dll/win32/kernel32/client/proc.c:3727) Invalid subsystem version: 6.0
(dll/win32/kernel32/client/proc.c:3727) Invalid subsystem version: 6.0

So Galaxy tryes to run as on Windows Vista+
Erm... look what it says right there on the Galaxy client download page:
GOG Galaxy Client requires Windows 7 or newer.

If it doesn't run on ReactOS, though luck i would say. Even if you get it running on Vista or WinXP you will have to keep in mind that running the Galaxy client on those OS is not supported by GOG. Also, the mere fact that the client was/is running on XP but not on ReactOS should tell you that ReactOS obviously is not sufficiently equivalent to XP. You talking to the wrong people here. Talk to the ReactOS developers...
Post edited June 14, 2015 by elgonzo
Posted June 14, 2015
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elgonzo: If it doesn't run on ReactOS, though luck i would say. Even if you get it running on Vista or WinXP you will have to keep in mind that running the Galaxy client on those OS is not supported by GOG. Also, the mere fact that the client was/is running on XP but not on ReactOS should tell you that ReactOS obviously is not sufficiently equivalent to XP. You talking to the wrong people here. Talk to the ReactOS developers...
I am from the ReactOS development team. And I want to get more information from GOG developers. Bugs may hide not only in ReactOS but in Galaxy too. Galaxy may be just missdetects the type of OS. ReactOS shold be detected like Xp and not as Vista+.
Posted June 14, 2015
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elgonzo: If it doesn't run on ReactOS, though luck i would say. Even if you get it running on Vista or WinXP you will have to keep in mind that running the Galaxy client on those OS is not supported by GOG. Also, the mere fact that the client was/is running on XP but not on ReactOS should tell you that ReactOS obviously is not sufficiently equivalent to XP. You talking to the wrong people here. Talk to the ReactOS developers...
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jeditobe: I am from the ReactOS development team. And I want to get more information from GOG developers. Bugs may hide not only in ReactOS but in Galaxy too. Galaxy may be just missdetects the type of OS. ReactOS shold be detected like Xp and not as Vista+.
You might want to ask GOG to open-source the client, but do not expect GOG's developers to spend their working hours on issues related to ReactOS...
Post edited June 14, 2015 by elgonzo
Posted June 14, 2015
For the love of God when CDPR will fix CleintCommunication.exe crash? I cant get any of achievements because of that.
Posted June 15, 2015
Never mind. I finally got the bloody thing to download one game, so I'll give it a go. But, Jesus, what a pain in the ass this thing is so far :(
Post edited June 15, 2015 by Bloodygoodgames
Posted June 15, 2015
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elgonzo: If it doesn't run on ReactOS, though luck i would say. Even if you get it running on Vista or WinXP you will have to keep in mind that running the Galaxy client on those OS is not supported by GOG. Also, the mere fact that the client was/is running on XP but not on ReactOS should tell you that ReactOS obviously is not sufficiently equivalent to XP. You talking to the wrong people here. Talk to the ReactOS developers...
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jeditobe: I am from the ReactOS development team. And I want to get more information from GOG developers. Bugs may hide not only in ReactOS but in Galaxy too. Galaxy may be just missdetects the type of OS. ReactOS shold be detected like Xp and not as Vista+.
Have you tried the Mantis bugtracker? You may be able to get some more valid technical background straight from the developers there.
Would be incredibly cool if you could get it to run. Especially along with the game. Thanks so much for your work. :)
Posted June 15, 2015
i have tried all that and my game is still at 1.05. it doesnt update.
Posted June 15, 2015
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bouncedk: This is a joke right? Why must I be forced to install games all over the place? I made a "Games" folder in the Galaxy folder, I should be able to install my friggin games in there if I friggin want to! Also I made a folder right next to the galaxy folder, not in it, and it still wouldn't let my install games in there ... wtf?

Also I installed Galaxy on D: drive, but lo and behold, galaxy wants to use my C: drive for all it's junk. Hello? There's a reason why I install it on the friggin D: drive.

Worst client ever, worse than steam. Where's the old downloader? I like that one so much better than this junk.
Let me say the words you might have missed... BETA. Steam has had over 10 years, GOG has had 6 months (give or take).

EDIT:

You can also change the options under setting's so you games will install in D:, the default is C: drive.
Post edited June 15, 2015 by BKGaming
Posted June 15, 2015
The Galaxy settings already offer options to use other locations for Games, temporary files and extras. Oh well...
Post edited June 15, 2015 by 8BitChris
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